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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Equity Development Programmes: Does Mentoring Make a Difference in Individual and Social Transformation for South African WonderWomen?
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Geber, Hilary – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2010
The equity and transformation challenge for women and black academics at universities in Post-Apartheid South Africa is enormous. Despite a marked increase in equity development programmes since the 1996 Employment Equity legislation, fewer women than expected have advanced through the academic ranks. An indigenous mentoring model for…
Descriptors: Mentors, Females, Racial Bias, Social Change
Community Development Workers Programme: Mentoring for Social Transformation in the Public Service in Post-Apartheid South Africa
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Geber, Hilary; Motlhake, Bona – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2008
The new public sector community development workers (CDWs) programme was established in 2004 following ineffective service delivery through chronic under-spending on annual budgets in post-apartheid South Africa. CDWs receive training in learnerships within the National Skills Development Strategy to ensure access to and spending of local…
Descriptors: Community Development, Budgets, Mentors, Social Change